The decision to site the fusion experiment ITER in France left relatively little bad blood between the international partners, who must now rally behind the project.
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Editorials
All together now p303
Socialism in one country p303
Cuba's scientific community has made substantial progress in addressing social problems.
doi: 10.1038/436303b
Agency under siege p304
Conflicts-of-interest at the US National Institutes of Health justify the agency's ethics crackdown.
doi: 10.1038/436304a
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News
Psychologists warn of more suicide attacks in the wake of London bombs p308
Terror threat to the West 'will remain high for years to come', says analyst.
Jim Gilesand Michael Hopkin
doi: 10.1038/436308a
Altered embryos offered as solution to stem-cell rift p309
Bird flu: crossing borders p310
Despite recent reports from governments that bird flu is under control, it continues to spread through Asia's poultry and claim lives — there are even signs of human-to-human transmission. Declan Butler tracks the disease's inexorable spread.
doi: 10.1038/436310a
Arsenic-free water still a pipedream p313
Decontamination plants fail to free millions from poisoned supply.
Philip Ball
doi: 10.1038/436313a
Malaysia plans 'red book' in its attempts to go green p313
Biodiversity catalogue marks shift in attitude.
David Cyranoski
doi: 10.1038/436313b
Asia squeezes Europe's lead in science p314
Global share of scientific output rises in the East.
Andreas von Bubnoff
doi: 10.1038/436314a
Sidelines p315
doi: 10.1038/435315b
Animal-rights group sues over 'disturbing' work on sea lions p315
Conservation effort criticized for branding pups.
Rex Dalton
doi: 10.1038/436315a
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News Features
Fusion energy: Just around the corner p318
For 50 years, physicists have been promising that power from nuclear fusion is imminent. Now they are poised to build an experiment that could vindicate their views. But will the machine work? Geoff Brumfiel investigates.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi: 10.1038/436318a
Cuban science: ¿Vive la revolución? p322
Cuba's socialist science policies are producing top-notch research from scant economic resources. But, as Jim Giles reports, they have harsh consequences for scientists who do not fit in with government priorities.
Jim Giles
doi: 10.1038/436322a
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Business
Pumping up the volume p326
The business of writing popular science books is hard to break into — and even harder to make money out of. Tony Reichhardt reports.
doi: 10.1038/436326a
In brief p327
doi: 10.1038/436327a
Market watch p327
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Correspondence
Unlike climate science, GM is full of uncertainties p328
Leave GM analysis to the relevant scientists p328
Compensation for climate change must meet needs p328
There's more to a colourful life than simply sex p328
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Books and Arts
Letters from a hero p329
What made Richard Feynman so much more than a Nobel prizewinning physicist?
doi: 10.1038/436329a
Darwin's first love p330
doi: 10.1038/436330a
Documentary: In the right place at the right time p331
Science in culture: A trick of the tiles p332
Penrose tiling is realized on a huge scale in Perth to give a perceptual feast for the eyes.
Martin Kemp
doi: 10.1038/436332a
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News and Views
古気候：氷河時代の前兆
Palaeoclimate: Foreshadowing the glacial era p333
Under what circumstances do glaciations persist or occur only transiently? Indications that short-lived 'icehouse' conditions occurred during the otherwise warm Eocene provide further cause for debate on the question.
Lee R. Kump
doi: 10.1038/436333a
行動遺伝学：ショウジョウバエの性とfruitless遺伝子
Behavioural genetics: Sex in fruitflies is fruitless p334
The courtship rituals of fruitflies are disrupted by mutations in the fruitless gene. A close look at the gene's products — some of which are sex-specific — hints at the neural basis of the flies' behaviour.
Charalambos P. Kyriacou
doi: 10.1038/436334a
小惑星：衝突で大ゆれ
Asteroids: Shaken on impact p335
A single recent impact may have modified the craters on the asteroid Eros into the pattern we see today. This finding has implications for how we view the structure of asteroids — and for addressing any hazards they present.
Erik Asphaug
doi: 10.1038/436335a
50 and 100 years ago p336
doi: 10.1038/436336a
代謝：AはアディポカインのA
Metabolism: A is for adipokine p337
Adipokines are hormones that signal changes in fatty-tissue mass and energy status so as to control fuel usage. A fat-derived adipokine that binds to vitamin A provides a new link between obesity and insulin resistance.
Deborah M. Muoioand Christopher B. Newgard
doi: 10.1038/436337a
寄生虫学：3つの寄生虫ゲノムが揃い踏み
Parasitology: Triple genome triumph p337
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Brief Communications
Radiocarbon dating: Jewish inspiration of Christian catacombs p339
A Jewish cemetery in ancient Rome harbours a secret that bears on the history of early Christianity.
Leonard V. Rutgers, Klaas van der Borg, Arie F. M. de Jongand Imogen Poole
doi: 10.1038/436339a
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Brief Communications Arising
Palaeoclimatology: Formation of Precambrian sediment ripples pE1
Palaeoclimatology: Formation of Precambrian sediment ripples (reply) pE1
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Articles
気候：地球全体の炭素循環の変化に関連して起こった始新世における両極の氷河作用
Eocene bipolar glaciation associated with global carbon cycle changes p341
Aradhna Tripati, Jan Backman, Henry Elderfieldand Patrizia Ferretti
doi: 10.1038/nature03874
発生：頸肩部は神経冠からできる
Neural crest origins of the neck and shoulder p347
Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Per E. Ahlberg, Nicoletta Kessaris, Palma Iannarelli, Ulla Dennehy, William D. Richardson, Andrew P. McMahonand Georgy Koentges
doi: 10.1038/nature03837
医学：血清レチノール結合タンパク4は、肥満や2型糖尿病におけるインスリン抵抗性の原因となる
Serum retinol binding protein 4 contributes to insulin resistance in obesity and type 2 diabetes p356
Qin Yang, Timothy E. Graham, Nimesh Mody, Frederic Preitner, Odile D. Peroni, Janice M. Zabolotny, Ko Kotani, Loredana Quadroand Barbara B. Kahn
doi: 10.1038/nature03711
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Letters
宇宙：太陽型恒星を取り巻く温かいダストの起源は微惑星間の激しい衝突と考えられる
Extreme collisions between planetesimals as the origin of warm dust around a Sun-like star p363
Inseok Song, B. Zuckerman, Alycia J. Weinbergerand E. E. Becklin
doi: 10.1038/nature03853
宇宙：小惑星433番エロスで単回の衝突による地震が起こした表面の改変
Seismic resurfacing by a single impact on the asteroid 433 Eros p366
細胞：光画像を使った単一細胞およびミクロン粒子の超並列操作
Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images p370
Pei Yu Chiou, Aaron T. Ohtaand Ming C. Wu
doi: 10.1038/nature03831
物理：アト秒領域における電子ダイナミクスの直接観測
Direct observation of electron dynamics in the attosecond domain p373
A. Föhlisch, P. Feulner, F. Hennies, A. Fink, D. Menzel, D. Sanchez-Portal, P. M. Echeniqueand W. Wurth
doi: 10.1038/nature03833
地球：地球下部マントル内のマグネシオヴスタイトにおける鉄のスピン遷移
Spin transition of iron in magnesiowüstite in the Earth's lower mantle p377
Jung-Fu Lin, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Steven D. Jacobsen, Michael Y. Hu, Paul Chow, Jennifer Kung, Haozhe Liu, Ho-kwang Maoand Russell J. Hemley
doi: 10.1038/nature03825
地球：ヨーロッパの長期にわたる強度とプレート形成過程へのその影響
The long-term strength of Europe and its implications for plate-forming processes p381
M. Pérez-Gussinyéand A. B. Watts
doi: 10.1038/nature03854
進化：Agrodiaetus属のシジミチョウにおける接合前隔離の強化と核型進化
Reinforcement of pre-zygotic isolation and karyotype evolution in Agrodiaetus butterflies p385
Vladimir A. Lukhtanov, Nikolai P. Kandul, Joshua B. Plotkin, Alexander V. Dantchenko, David Haigand Naomi E. Pierce
doi: 10.1038/nature03704
生物多様性：深海海底下の原核生物が境界層で見せる地質学的時間を通した活発な生態
Deep sub-seafloor prokaryotes stimulated at interfaces over geological time p390
R. John Parkes, Gordon Webster, Barry A. Cragg, Andrew J. Weightman, Carole J. Newberry, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Jens Kallmeyer, Bo B. Jørgensen, Ivano W. Aielloand John C. Fry
doi: 10.1038/nature03796
行動遺伝学：ショウジョウバエの雄特異的遺伝子fruitlessは求愛行動の神経回路基盤を特定する
Male-specific fruitless specifies the neural substrates of Drosophila courtship behaviour p395
Devanand S. Manoli, Margit Foss, Adriana Villella, Barbara J. Taylor, Jeffrey C. Halland Bruce S. Baker
doi: 10.1038/nature03859
医学：エフリンB2は新興の致死性パラミクソウイルスであるニパウイルスの侵入に使われる受容体である
EphrinB2 is the entry receptor for Nipah virus, an emergent deadly paramyxovirus p401
Oscar A. Negrete, Ernest L. Levroney, Hector C. Aguilar, Andrea Bertolotti-Ciarlet, Ronen Nazarian, Sara Tajyarand Benhur Lee
doi: 10.1038/nature03838
細胞：結核菌Mycobacterium tuberculosisで見られる膜内タンパク質分解による細胞壁の組成と毒性の調節
Regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope composition and virulence by intramembrane proteolysis p406
Hideki Makinoshimaand Michael S. Glickman
doi: 10.1038/nature03713
細胞：Trans-SNARE対形成は細胞内膜融合過程で半融合型中間体形成に先行して起こり得る
Trans-SNARE pairing can precede a hemifusion intermediate in intracellular membrane fusion p410
Christoph Reese, Felix Heiseand Andreas Mayer
doi: 10.1038/nature03722
生化学：rabenosyn-5によるRab GTPアーゼファミリー全体にわたる識別の構造基盤
Structural basis of family-wide Rab GTPase recognition by rabenosyn-5 p415
Sudharshan Eathiraj, Xiaojing Pan, Christopher Ritaccoand David G. Lambright
doi: 10.1038/nature03798
生理：哺乳類CLCタンパク質ClC-4およびClC-5の塩素/プロトン対向輸送体活性
Chloride/proton antiporter activity of mammalian CLC proteins ClC-4 and ClC-5 p420
生理：エンドソームCLCタンパク質による電位依存性の起電性塩素イオン/プロトン交換
Voltage-dependent electrogenic chloride/proton exchange by endosomal CLC proteins p424
Olaf Scheel, Anselm A. Zdebik, Stéphane Lourdeland Thomas J. Jentsch
doi: 10.1038/nature03860
細胞：SUMO修飾されたPCNAによるSrs2の動員がS期での組換えを防ぐ
SUMO-modified PCNA recruits Srs2 to prevent recombination during S phase p428
Boris Pfander, George-Lucian Moldovan, Meik Sacher, Carsten Hoegeand Stefan Jentsch
doi: 10.1038/nature03665
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Postdocs and Students
Career Views
Naturejobs
ProspectA tangential route to success p435
Young scientist follows a bench tangent to biotech success
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7049-435a
Postdocs and Students
Learning to mentor p436
Having a good mentor can determine the direction and probability of success for a young researcher. But mentoring takes skill, and institutions are paying attention to their training, says Virginia Gewin.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7049-436a
Career Views
Giovanni Galizia, professor of neurobiology, University of Konstanz, Germany p438
German scientist coming home from California
Giovanni Galizia
doi:10.1038/nj7049-438a
Scientists & Societies p438
Swedish scientists seek strength in numbers
Marita Teräs
doi:10.1038/nj7049-438b
Graduate Journal: A study in time p438
Graduate experience warps time
Anne Margaret Lee
doi:10.1038/nj7049-438c
